Brentwood-based real estate investment firm Lowe said its sale of the Two Roads Hospitality business it ran with San Francisco-based private equity firm Geolo Capital to Hyatt Hotels Corp., of Chicago, for $480 million is designed to raise liquidity to fund projects elsewhere.

International Coffee & Tea, which does business as The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, is planning to move out of the Wilshire Courtyard campus on the Miracle Mile and into a new corporate headquarters to be built on the 6000 block of West Jefferson Boulevard in the Baldwin Hills/Crenshaw neighborhood.

Westside-based developer Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. and Germany-based Allianz Real Estate have formed a joint venture to purchase San Francisco’s Ferry Building at 1 The Embarcadero, from Blackstone Group affiliate Equity Office for $291 million.